The ongoing border conflict between India and Pakistan has brought to fore the massive misinformation problems festering in both countries’ media.
Some prolific publishers of Facebook ads in India seem to be using the name and image of prime minister Narendra Modi to scam people.
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It’s been four days since Barkha Dutt, one of India’s best-known TV journalists, publicly criticised Twitter for allegedly failing to act against the gendered harassment she has faced on it.
India’s supreme court has ordered the eviction of more than a million forest-dwelling and tribal families across 16 states. And some believe that the country’s government is at fault.
Flipkart and Amazon may be locked in a tight race for supremacy in Indian e-commerce, but when it comes to ad spends, the homegrown company does not even come close to its US rival.
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Twitter has been facing fire in India over claims that it is politically biased. Many officials and supporters of the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have alleged that the microblogging platform unduly censors right-wing voices.
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Indian Twitter is in a state of panic over disappearing retweets and likes.
India’s telecom service providers are still struggling to provide consistent 4G network coverage across the country.
Over three months after the Indian government banned hundreds of porn websites, internet users from across the country are reporting blocked access to a wide variety of other online services. These include VPN (virtual private network) and proxy sites, torrent sites, the website for the messaging platform Telegram, and even the audio-streaming site Soundcloud.
On a cold afternoon in New Delhi this week, dozens of journalists gathered in a conference room of a five-star hotel at the invitation of the world’s largest messaging platform, WhatsApp.
The Narendra Modi government has faced severe backlash over its proposed rules to police content on online platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter.
Supporters of India’s ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have for months alleged that Twitter is biased against them. Now, the social networking site has been summoned before a parliamentary panel on information technology (IT), in what is being widely perceived as a reaction to these concerns.
India’s ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) is likely to walk back the stance on vaping laid out as part of its proposed rules for policing internet content.
India’s plans to regulate internet content have put its vaping community at loggerheads with its government.
As expected, the Narendra Modi government’s budget for financial year 2020 seems to have been crafted with a single focus: India’s upcoming parliamentary election.
Facebook has removed 783 pages, groups, and accounts tied to Iran for their “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” aimed at influencing public opinion in several countries, including India.
India could see a spike in religious violence in the run up to the general elections, a top US intelligence official has warned. He has also strongly criticised prime minister Narendra Modi’s term for degrading the country’s religious harmony.
Facebook will work to monitor threats to the upcoming Indian general election from an operations centre in Singapore, Quartz has learnt.
India’s raging fake news menace has reportedly led to dozens of mob-lynchings over the past few years, besides muddying the country’s politics and turning the heat on popular social media platforms and messaging apps.
If you’re looking to download a movie on a 4G connection in India, you’re best off in Navi Mumbai.
